scholarly journals Developing Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Coffee Grading Model using a Deep Learning Classifier

Coffee grading is the main procedure in producing homogenous local commercial fair system of pricing in the market and export. Grading coffee is a difficult task during the inspection, because it requires training and experience of the experts. In order to tackle grading difficulties in coffee producing industries and corporates have been employed and trained experts. Even if, those experts do not work effectively due to tiredness, costly, time consuming, inconsistency, bias and other factors. Digital image processing techniques based on automatically extracted features have been explored to classify Ethiopian coffee to corresponding quality grade labels. Samples of those coffee beans were taken from Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Union. On average, 228 images were taken from each of three grade values or levels (grade 1, grade 2 and grade 3). The total number of images taken was 684 containing 6138 coffee beans. To extract coffee bean features and build a classification model for grading coffee, the state of art deep learning algorithm called convolutional Neural Network was used. Base on the experimental results classification accuracy obtained with testing coffee bean images for grade 1, grade 2 and grade 3 coffee beans was 99.51%, 97.56%, and 98.04%, respectively with the overall classification accuracy of 98.38%. This shows a promising result, even if, images are captured under the challenging condition without laboratory setup, such as illumination, different resolution, shadow and orientation which affects greatly the performance of the classifier and hence they are the future research direction that needs further investigations of noise removal techniques.

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 8226
Author(s):  
Shyang-Jye Chang ◽  
Chien-Yu Huang

The detection of coffee bean defects is the most crucial step prior to bean roasting. Existing defect detection methods used in the specialty coffee bean industry entail manual screening and sorting, require substantial human resources, and are not standardized. To solve these problems, this study developed a deep learning algorithm to detect defects in coffee beans. The results reveal that when the pooling layer was used to enhance features and reduce neural dimensionality, some of the coffee been features were lost or misclassified. Therefore, a novel dimensionality reduction method was adopted to increase the ability of feature extraction. The developed model also overcame the drawbacks of padding causing blurred image boundaries and the dead neurons causing impeding feature propagation. Images of eight types of coffee beans were used to train and test the proposed detection model. The proposed method was verified to reduce the bias when classifying defects in coffee beans. The detection accuracy rate of the proposed model was 95.2%. When the model was only used to detect the presence of defects, the accuracy rate increased to 100%. Thus, the proposed model is highly accurate in coffee bean defect detection in the classification of eight types of coffee beans.


2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Mengyao Lu ◽  
Shuwen Jiang ◽  
Cong Wang ◽  
Dong Chen ◽  
Tian’en Chen

HighlightsA classification model for the front and back sides of tobacco leaves was developed for application in industry.A tobacco leaf grading method that combines a CNN with double-branch integration was proposed.The A-ResNet network was proposed and compared with other classic CNN networks.The grading accuracy of eight different grades was 91.30% and the testing time was 82.180 ms, showing a relatively high classification accuracy and efficiency.Abstract. Flue-cured tobacco leaf grading is a key step in the production and processing of Chinese-style cigarette raw materials, directly affecting cigarette blend and quality stability. At present, manual grading of tobacco leaves is dominant in China, resulting in unsatisfactory grading quality and consuming considerable material and financial resources. In this study, for fast, accurate, and non-destructive tobacco leaf grading, 2,791 flue-cured tobacco leaves of eight different grades in south Anhui Province, China, were chosen as the study sample, and a tobacco leaf grading method that combines convolutional neural networks and double-branch integration was proposed. First, a classification model for the front and back sides of tobacco leaves was trained by transfer learning. Second, two processing methods (equal-scaled resizing and cropping) were used to obtain global images and local patches from the front sides of tobacco leaves. A global image-based tobacco leaf grading model was then developed using the proposed A-ResNet-65 network, and a local patch-based tobacco leaf grading model was developed using the ResNet-34 network. These two networks were compared with classic deep learning networks, such as VGGNet, GoogLeNet-V3, and ResNet. Finally, the grading results of the two grading models were integrated to realize tobacco leaf grading. The tobacco leaf classification accuracy of the final model, for eight different grades, was 91.30%, and grading of a single tobacco leaf required 82.180 ms. The proposed method achieved a relatively high grading accuracy and efficiency. It provides a method for industrial implementation of the tobacco leaf grading and offers a new approach for the quality grading of other agricultural products. Keywords: Convolutional neural network, Deep learning, Image classification, Transfer learning, Tobacco leaf grading


Lung cancer is a serious illness which leads to increased mortality rate globally. The identification of lung cancer at the beginning stage is the probable method of improving the survival rate of the patients. Generally, Computed Tomography (CT) scan is applied for finding the location of the tumor and determines the stage of cancer. Existing works has presented an effective diagnosis classification model for CT lung images. This paper designs an effective diagnosis and classification model for CT lung images. The presented model involves different stages namely pre-processing, segmentation, feature extraction and classification. The initial stage includes an adaptive histogram based equalization (AHE) model for image enhancement and bilateral filtering (BF) model for noise removal. The pre-processed images are fed into the second stage of watershed segmentation model for effectively segment the images. Then, a deep learning based Xception model is applied for prominent feature extraction and the classification takes place by the use of logistic regression (LR) classifier. A comprehensive simulation is carried out to ensure the effective classification of the lung CT images using a benchmark dataset. The outcome implied the outstanding performance of the presented model on the applied test images.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (04) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mickael Aghajarian ◽  
John E. McInroy ◽  
Suresh Muknahallipatna

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Wang ◽  
Chao Wang ◽  
Hong Zhang

With the capability to automatically learn discriminative features, deep learning has experienced great success in natural images but has rarely been explored for ship classification in high-resolution SAR images due to the training bottleneck caused by the small datasets. In this paper, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are applied to ship classification by using SAR images with the small datasets. First, ship chips are constructed from high-resolution SAR images and split into training and validation datasets. Second, a ship classification model is constructed based on very deep convolutional networks (VGG). Then, VGG is pretrained via ImageNet, and fine tuning is utilized to train our model. Six scenes of COSMO-SkyMed images are used to evaluate our proposed model with regard to the classification accuracy. The experimental results reveal that (1) our proposed ship classification model trained by fine tuning achieves more than 95% average classification accuracy, even with 5-cross validation; (2) compared with other models, the ship classification model based on VGG16 achieves at least 2% higher accuracies for classification. These experimental results reveal the effectiveness of our proposed method.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3044-3053
Author(s):  
Rakesh Kumar Mahendran ◽  
V. Prabhu ◽  
V. Parthasarathy ◽  
A. Mary Judith

Myocardial infarction (MI) may precipitate severe health damage and lead to irreversible death of the heart muscle, the result of prolonged lack of oxygen if it is not treated in a timely manner. Lack of accurate and early detection techniques for this heart disease has reduced the efficiency of MI diagnosis. In this paper, the design, and implementation of an efficient deep learning algorithm called Adaptive Recurrent neural network (ARNN) is proposed for the MI detection. The main objective of the proposed work is the accurate identification of MI disease using ECG signals. ECG signal denoising has been performed using the Multi-Notch filter, which removes the specified noise frequency range. Discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is utilized for performing the feature extraction that decomposes the ECG signal into varied scales with waveletfiltering bank. After the extraction of specific QRS features, classification of the defected and normal ECG arrhythmic beat has been performed using the deep learning-based ARNN classifier. The MIT-BIH database has been used for testing and training data. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated based on classification accuracy. Results that are attained include the classification accuracy of about 99.21%, 99% of sensitivity and 99.4% of specificity with PPV and NPV of about 99.4 and 99.01 values indicate the enhanced performance of our proposed work compared with the conventional LSTM-CAE and LSTM-CNN techniques.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-213
Author(s):  
Lu Chen ◽  
Chunchao Xia ◽  
Huaiqiang Sun

ABSTRACT Deep learning (DL) is a recently proposed subset of machine learning methods that has gained extensive attention in the academic world, breaking benchmark records in areas such as visual recognition and natural language processing. Different from conventional machine learning algorithm, DL is able to learn useful representations and features directly from raw data through hierarchical nonlinear transformations. Because of its ability to detect abstract and complex patterns, DL has been used in neuroimaging studies of psychiatric disorders, which are characterized by subtle and diffuse alterations. Here, we provide a brief review of recent advances and associated challenges in neuroimaging studies of DL applied to psychiatric disorders. The results of these studies indicate that DL could be a powerful tool in assisting the diagnosis of psychiatric diseases. We conclude our review by clarifying the main promises and challenges of DL application in psychiatric disorders, and possible directions for future research.


Diagnostics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1246
Author(s):  
Ning Hung ◽  
Andy Kuan-Yu Shih ◽  
Chihung Lin ◽  
Ming-Tse Kuo ◽  
Yih-Shiou Hwang ◽  
...  

In this study, we aimed to develop a deep learning model for identifying bacterial keratitis (BK) and fungal keratitis (FK) by using slit-lamp images. We retrospectively collected slit-lamp images of patients with culture-proven microbial keratitis between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2019 from two medical centers in Taiwan. We constructed a deep learning algorithm consisting of a segmentation model for cropping cornea images and a classification model that applies different convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to differentiate between FK and BK. The CNNs included DenseNet121, DenseNet161, DenseNet169, DenseNet201, EfficientNetB3, InceptionV3, ResNet101, and ResNet50. The model performance was evaluated and presented as the area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic curves. A gradient-weighted class activation mapping technique was used to plot the heat map of the model. By using 1330 images from 580 patients, the deep learning algorithm achieved the highest average accuracy of 80.0%. Using different CNNs, the diagnostic accuracy for BK ranged from 79.6% to 95.9%, and that for FK ranged from 26.3% to 65.8%. The CNN of DenseNet161 showed the best model performance, with an AUC of 0.85 for both BK and FK. The heat maps revealed that the model was able to identify the corneal infiltrations. The model showed a better diagnostic accuracy than the previously reported diagnostic performance of both general ophthalmologists and corneal specialists.


Author(s):  
Ning Hung ◽  
Eugene Yu-Chuan Kang ◽  
Andy Guan-Yu Shih ◽  
Chi-Hung Lin ◽  
Ming‐Tse Kuo ◽  
...  

In this study, we aimed to develop a deep learning model for identifying bacterial keratitis (BK) and fungal keratitis (FK) by using slit-lamp images. We retrospectively collected slit-lamp images of patients with culture-proven microbial keratitis between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2019, from two medical centers in Taiwan. We constructed a deep learning algorithm, consisting of a segmentation model for cropping cornea images and a classification model that applies convolutional neural networks to differentiate between FK and BK. The model performance was evaluated and presented as the area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic curves. A gradient-weighted class activation mapping technique was used to plot the heatmap of the model. By using 1330 images from 580 patients, the deep learning algorithm achieved an average diagnostic accuracy of 80.00%. The diagnostic accuracy for BK ranged from 79.59% to 95.91% and that for FK ranged from 26.31% to 63.15%. DenseNet169 showed the best model performance, with an AUC of 0.78 for both BK and FK. The heat maps revealed that the model was able to identify the corneal infiltrations. The model showed better diagnostic accuracy than the previously reported diagnostic performance of both general ophthalmologists and corneal specialists.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-136
Author(s):  
Rahmat Robi Waliyansyah ◽  
Umar Hafidz Asy'ari Hasbullah

Coffee is one of the many favorite drinks of Indonesians. In Indonesia there are 2 types of coffee, namely Arabica & Robusta. The classification of coffee beans is usually done in a traditional way & depends on the human senses. However, the human senses are often inconsistent, because it depends on the mental or physical condition in question at that time, and only qualitative measures can be determined. In this study, to classify coffee beans is done by digital image processing. The parameters used are texture analysis using the Gray Level Coocurrence Matrix (GLCM) method with 4 features, namely Energy, Correlation, Homogeneity & Contrast. For feature extraction using a classification algorithm, namely Naïve Bayes, Tree, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Logistic Regression. The evaluation of the coffee bean classification model uses the following parameters: AUC, F1, CA, precision & recall. The dataset used is 29 images of Arabica coffee beans and 29 images of Robusta beans. To test the accuracy of the model using Cross Validation. The results obtained will be evaluated using the confusion Matrix. Based on the results of testing and evaluation of the model, it is obtained that the SVM method is the best with the value of AUC = 1, CA = 0.983, F1 = 0.983, Precision = 0.983 and Recall = 0.983.


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